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So the king produced those that had been tortured before the multitude
at Jericho, in order to have them accuse the young men, which accusers
many of the people stoned to death; and when they were going to kill Alexander
and Aristobulus likewise, the king would not permit them to do so, but
restrained the multitude, by the means of Ptolemy and Pheroras. However,
the young men were put under a guard, and kept in custody, that nobody
might come at them; and all that they did or said was watched, and the
reproach and fear they were in was little or nothing different from those
of condemned criminals: and one of them, who was Aristobulus, was so deeply
affected, that he brought Salome, who was his aunt, and his mother-in-law,
to lament with him for his calamities, and to hate him who had suffered
things to come to that pass; when he said to her, "Art thou not in
danger of destruction also, while the report goes that thou hadst disclosed
beforehand all our affairs to Syllcus, when thou wast in hopes of being
married to him?" But she immediately carried these words to her brother.
Upon this he was out of patience, and gave command to bind him; and enjoined
them both, now they were kept separate one from the other, to write down
the ill things they had done against their father, and bring the writings
to him, So when this was enjoined them, they wrote this, that they had
laid no treacherous designs, nor made any preparations against their father,
but that they had intended to fly away; and that by the distress they were
in, their lives being now uncertain and tedious to them.

Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.

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